Create CA
For Development Of A Title I Web Resource
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Amount$70,000
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Program
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Date Awarded11/12/2013
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Term24 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
The California Alliance for Arts Education is the only statewide organization that brings together primary constituencies and advocates for arts education, annually serving more than 100,000 artists, arts organizations, K-12 teachers, state and local education departments, and parents and PTAs. The Alliance is a cornerstone grantee of Hewlett’s arts education efforts, an acknowledged key leader in the arts education advocacy field and a powerful ally in statewide efforts to increase arts education in the public school system. With an increased focus on deploying federal Title I dollars on arts education in California, the Alliance will convene administrators from 300 schools to raise awareness of the role the arts can play in achieving Title I goals, and develop an online system of tools and resources for educators.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.artsed411.org
Address
85 South Grand Avenue, Pasadena, CA, 91105, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for general operating support
Create CA promotes, supports, and advocates for visual and performing arts education for preschool through post-secondary students in California’s public school system. It is the only statewide organization that brings together key stakeholders to support statewide efforts to increase arts education in the public school system. Create CA convenes and provides training and resources for more than 100,000 artists, K-12 teachers, parents, and members of state and local education departments and PTAs each year. This grant to Create CA advances the Performing Arts Program’s Youth strategy through its Policy and Advocacy substrategy.
for Arts Now Advocacy Action Planning
Create CA is the only statewide organization dedicated to promoting, supporting, and advocating for visual and performing arts education for preschool through post-secondary students in California’s public school system. Through a leadership council, Create CA convenes key stakeholders to support statewide efforts to increase arts education in the public school system. Its training, online resources, consulting, and leadership on the Arts Education Data Project support 100,000 artists, K-12 teachers, parents, and educators and advocates in their school-based advocacy efforts. This grant to Create CA advances the Youth strategy, through the Policy and Advocacy substrategy, and will expand the organization’s existing Arts Now advocate training program to build the advocacy skills and capacity of youth-serving arts education organizations.
